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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kael” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kael” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kael” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kael” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kael” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kael” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kael” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kael” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 -100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 -100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 -100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
1989 15 0.000003902 15 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1991 17 0.000004364 17 -100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 -100%
1993 14 0.000003713 14 -100%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 -100%
1995 16 0.000004369 16 -100%
1996 15 0.000004113 15 -100%
1997 18 0.000004964 18 -100%
1998 16 0.00000435 16 -100%
1999 21 0.000005685 21 -100%
2000 35 0.000009259 35 -100%
2001 71 0.000018967 71 -100%
2002 117 0.000031298 117 -100%
2003 142 0.000037346 142 -100%
2004 145 0.000037949 145 -100%
2005 163 0.000042394 163 -100%
2006 241 0.000060917 5 236 -96%
2007 183 0.000045777 5 178 -95%
2008 248 0.000063094 248 -100%
2009 251 0.000065704 251 -100%
2010 203 0.000054928 203 -100%
2011 198 0.000054131 198 -100%
2012 200 0.000054684 200 -100%
2013 156 0.000042791 156 -100%
2014 159 0.000042899 159 -100%
2015 137 0.000037018 6 131 -91%
2016 118 0.000032164 118 -100%
2017 93 0.000026005 93 -100%
2018 123 0.000034984 123 -100%
2019 104 0.000029963 104 -100%
2020 72 0.000021553 72 -100%
2021 70 0.000020661 70 -100%
2022 63 0.000018622 63 -100%
2023 103 0.000031107 103 -100%
2024 123 0.000036954 123 -100%

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